Statement

Over the course of about seventeen months (2009 – 2010) I was fortunate to get to Minnesota on three different occasions.  On each trip I had my camera with me, with the middle trip actually being me wanting to take a photo tour of the state for a week.

There is no profound artist statement to be found with this series.  During a meeting with an art historian in 2013 to discuss some of my work, I was asked why something couldn’t just be a picture of something.  The correct academic answer is that we should have a reason to create the images we do.  Sometimes they are a call for action.  At other times they are created in order to bring attention to something important.  Sometimes, though, the reason is nothing more than that we want people to see how we see what is in front of us.  That is the reason for this series – I want people to see what I saw on those three trips.